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Offshoring to a Ship in International Waters
JasdonLe writes "Sourcing Mag posted an article about Roger Green and David Cook, who hope to avoid US visa regulations that usually accompany outsourcing, with their company SeaCode, and a used cruise ship, sitting in international waters three miles off the coast of Los Angeles.""
Fucking sleazy.
Jesus.
wow, living on cruise ship permanently with 600 other humans. just wait till the whole damn place comes down with some ghastly flu. then again.
and given to the pirate nature of this thing, I think in such a case, we should quaranteen the place offshore. let the local medical folks rake em over the coals to service them out at sea.
a couple of those incidents should scare off the smartest people, as well as leave some angst amonst those thinking about giving them a time-critical project.
I suppose it won't be hard to find 600 people on this planet who will take such a crappy job.
love boat, huh? well that show was stupid too
The corporate officers will have pulled their money out early, except for some fall guy. That guy will be broke, the others will be laughing to the bank. The investers will take a bath, and the workers who are stretched thin at the home office, working for reduced pay, will be fired with little chance of finding work that doesn't involve wearing a hat. Welcome to Bush's America.
That's gotta fit into your schema somewhere
1. Insult Bush ...
2.
3. Profit!
How, exactly, is that Bush's America? He's a driveling douche bag who has no place behind a large store of nuclear weapons, but c'mon--justify that for me, or, for that matter, anyone reading your post with a critical eye.
We now have confirmed reports from an informed Orange County minister that Ethel is still an active communist.
...through due process of law. But should hang them and those of that ilk. Indict, try, convict, sentence, and execute. As economic traitors. For economic treason. It's all about the political consciousness, man. We just need another constitutional amendment.
eat shiat and bark at the moon
"And how long do they think coders are willing to stay on this ship before they _need_ some R&R? I'd say max 4 weeks. What then? How do they get visas so they can visit LA? And how do they get back to LA anyway? What about productivity and retaining workers?"
What R&R do computer nerds need? The ship will be one huge LAN party so they can frag each other after work. All of their female companionship will come in the standard geek form known as Internet pr0n. The supply ships can fill up with cold pizza and sodas so that part is covered.
I'm only wondering if the designers thought about the most significant byproduct of hard-core computer geeks. Body odor which is never washed away (as that would require bathing).